"Mayer Brown delivers an extraordinary performance in transactions and earns a superior rating in all of the activities that drive market leadership."  - BTI Consulting

Corporate and securities law is at the core of Mayer Brown's practice in every one of its offices worldwide. Our Corporate & Securities lawyers provide a full range of legal services to leading global companies and financial institutions with respect to some of their most important transactions. Our expansive capabilities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia allow us to handle complex cross-border deals and, at the same time, use our local market knowledge and deep understanding of industry-specific issues to ensure we provide the best solution for the client anywhere in the world.

Mayer Brown is a significant force in today's major world markets and we are well-known for our counsel and for our deal-making, and our longstanding clients look to us as trusted partners involved in the long-term life of their businesses.

Practice at a Glance  

• Our clients include 65 members of the Fortune 100.

• Recently ranked among the top nine US law firms in the corporate transactions market by BTI Consulting based on feedback from more than 150 corporate counsel responsible for transactions at Fortune 1000 and other large companies

• BTI Consulting also noted that Mayer Brown was among clients' top hiring choices in divestitures, friendly mergers, hostile takeovers, private acquisitions, private equity and private mergers.

• Recently ranked ninth in both the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 Index principal advisors survey and the FTSE most-used law firm survey

• Recently ranked 5th on the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst's "Guide to Law Firms" (March 2008) list of the "most active law firms by number of funds," representing general partners and limited partners in the formation of 288 funds. The same survey ranked Mayer Brown 18th for private equity and venture capital deals negotiated and closed in 2007 for a total of 178 deals.